"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Manchester United fans unveiled a pro-immigration banner during Sunday’s fixture against Crystal Palace in response to comments from minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

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So so sorry to hear this Thinking of you and your family. x

You Are Now Entering Free Minneapolis painted on a gable wall in the style of Free Derry Corner, with four very cool people who seem like legends in front of it.

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Alan Partridge: It *really* encapsulates the frustration of a mid-term break. The kids running around, packing everyone off to the beach, no parking anywhere-
Seamus Heaney: I really hate to do this to you Alan

The hidden costs for your brain from using ChatGPT With the rise and widespread use of large language models, it seems prudent to ask if their use will ultimately diminish our cognitive capabilities

The hidden costs for your brain from using ChatGPT https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0210/1557518-large-language-models-benefits-drawbacks-cognitive-capabilities/

Re-upping this for the Monday crowd... I think my favourite, most revealing detail is that the guy seems to not realise he's in trouble because London Centric's reporting didn't hit anything like his view counts, so therefore it can't really matter.

Yes! Maddening how many people are fooled too and how those behind the lies are raking it in.

Similar happened to me a couple of years ago. Sitting at a café having a coffee and scrolling through twitter when I saw a tweet claiming to show a riot and burning cars right across from where I was sitting! Idiots!
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This is from my book THEM. It was back in 1998, and I was outside a Bilderberg meeting having just been chased through Portugal by their shadowy henchmen… (H/T @isaac_kh on X)

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

The wonders of AI...

PS - The fact that the media was informed of the NEC decision before I was tells you everything you need to know about the way the Labour Party is being run these days.

You would think that over 30 years of service would count for something but sadly not. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I am disappointed by today’s NEC decision and concerned about its potential impact on the important elections ahead of us.

To whoever becomes Labour’s candidate and to our members in Manchester and Tameside: you will have my full support in this fight and I will be there whenever you need me.

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So sorry to hear this. Thinking of you all. x

Well this thread turned out to be a lovely resource for anyone who's decided to make something of the Year of Reading

Great news - congratulations!

A lot of new followers or users of Bluesky might find this useful:
go.bsky.app/N4TnmPL

This is very important and very moving. Shahmir’s story cuts to the very heart of our current, ongoing malaise. (It also chronicles the tragic collapse of BBC credibility.) He is an incredibly brave man.

Twitter (in days of yore) punched well above its weight as a social network because it became the default platform for journalists; which, in turn, made it the default platform for politicians.

Both must now abandon it for the platform to die, as it deserves.

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Tributes paid to ‘absolute gentleman’ whose family own popular Sandinos Bar following death Heartfelt tributes have been paid following the death of a Derry man whose family own the popular Sandinos Bar.

'Our beautiful Simon'

Heartfelt tributes have been paid to an ‘absolute gentleman’, whose family own the popular Sandinos Bar in Derry, following his death.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/obituar...

Graph of Billy Joel song

We Didn't Start the Fire. With Bardot's passing three people mentioned in the song remain alive

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion' The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, the Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist, dies aged 63 Ian Brown and Tim Burgess were among those to pay tribute to Mani, whose death was announced by his brother and nephew Gary “Mani” Mounfield, best known as a founding member and bassist of the Stone Roses, has died aged 63. The cause of death has not been shared. His brother Greg Mounfield posted the news on Facebook: “It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to announce the sad passing of my brother.” His nephew also shared the news. Continue reading...

Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, the Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist, dies aged 63

Final book of the year away to the printers this morning.
In the shops December 1.

On this day, where Catherine Connolly is sworn in as Uachtarán na hÉireann - it's always good to take a moment and think about the time @seamas.bsky.social had to serve the then President of Ireland, Mary McAleese drinks every 15 minutes at a social event while off his bap on ketamine.

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